Maquinical Ensembles in Fugue:

feminisms and performativity in two Andean music groups from Argentina

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Keywords:

dissident feminisms, gender performativities, Andean music ensembles, desiring machines, Argentina

Abstract

In this article we describe and comparatively analyze the performances of two community Andean music ensembles that represent two regions of Argentina with contrasting characteristics, and that constitute the two most important referents of groups of women and dissidents in Argentina. In this opportunity, we will focus on the performative practices of the women's Band from Tilcara Nuestra Señora de Fátima, Jujuy, and the Mama Quilla Community, from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. The objective is to understand the relationship between the experience-in-the-world understood as a projection oriented towards a cosmogony with Andean roots and the aesthetic-political qualities that reinstate the question of the scope of dissident feminism to produce other modes of action and political consciousness.

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Author Biographies

Adil Podhajcer, Universidad de Buenos Aires – UBA

Adil Podhajcer es Profesora, Licenciada y Doctora en Ciencias Antropológicas por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Especializada en antropología de la música, la religión y lenguajes visuales, su tesis de doctorado consistió en analizar las prácticas socioreligiosas y comunitarias de música andina en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Actualmente, es investigadora del Equipo de Antropología del Cuerpo y la Performance y de la Red de Investigación de y desde los cuerpos, donde trabaja en nuevas metodologías de performanceinvestigación/creación, incorporando la dimensión ritual y política propia de sus etnografías colaborativas, en vínculo con las materialidades sagradas, sonoras y visuales. En este sentido, cocoordina redes de vinculación con comunidades indí-genas, migrantes e instituciones gubernamentales. Es profesora regular en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y la Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda. 

Alejandra Vega, Universidad nacional de las artes

María Alejandra Vega has a degree in Folklore with a specialty in Creole Instruments from UNA, a Master's in Culture and Society from UNA and a professor of the American and Argentine Aboriginal Population Chair of the Department of Folklore of UNA. She is the director of the PIACyT project "Traditional collective singing practices in the construction of identities and reciprocity networks among women of the NOA. The Thursdays of comadres" from 2018 to date.
In the area of ethnomusicology, she has been researching the music of Bolivian migrants and Siku bands from Buenos Aires since 2003 in their context, with special interest in the processes of re-ethnicization and the narratives of Sikuri women. In 2011, he began his ethnography with the siku bands in the pilgrimage of the Virgin of Copacabana del Abra de Punta Corral, with a comparative approach between the bands of Tilcara and those of Buenos Aires, to later focus on the agency of women in the construction of roles of social representation in the context of the sikus bands and the practice of couplets on Thursdays of Comadres. At the same time, she studies historical musicology on the rural milonga of the Pampas. She forms the Latin American Network of Sikuris Women.

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Published

2024-06-09

How to Cite

Podhajcer, A., & Vega, A. (2024). Maquinical Ensembles in Fugue:: feminisms and performativity in two Andean music groups from Argentina. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(3). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/132203

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2024): Jul./Set. 2024

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Performance and Gender II

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